Story highlights. (CNN)Alan Rickman, the British actor with the unforgettable voice who played the brooding Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films as well as Die Hard villain Hans Gruber, died Thursday after a short battle with cancer, according to his representatives at Independent Talent Group. He was 69.
Brittany Nicole Carpentero (born May 20, 1988), better known by her stage name Diamond, is an American rapper and former member of the group Crime Mob.
Many people believe that diamonds are formed from the metamorphism of coal. That idea continues to be the how diamonds form story in many science classrooms. Coal has rarely played a role in the formation of diamonds. In fact, most diamonds that have been dated are much older than Earth's first land plants - the source material of coal!